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Downtown’s “Summer In The City” will include roller skating in Red Arrow Park, free concerts

May 2, 2023

It's been 10 long, hot, throbbing years since Downtown Milwaukee released a promotional video scored to a Peaches song about oral sex. "Cause I wanna take you downtown / Show you my thing, show you my thing" co...

22 pictures of the “Lightfield” installation at Cathedral Square Park

Matt Wild

January 21, 2023

This week and weekend saw the opening of "Lightfield" in Milwaukee's Cathedral Square Park. The immersive art installation by Ukrainian and Canadian artist duo HYBYCOZO features eight geometric ground sculpture...

Family-friendly Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee coming to Downtown Milwaukee October 29

Matt Wild

September 19, 2022

As we all know, each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. And this fall, he'll have a doozy in the Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee. The inaugural family-friendly Hal...

Coming to Downtown Milwaukee this summer: lunchtime music series, staycations, more

Matt Wild

April 28, 2022

It's been nine long, hot, throbbing years since Downtown Milwaukee released a promotional video scored to a Peaches song about oral sex. "Cause I wanna take you downtown / Show you my thing, show you my thing" ...

Inaugural “Buskerfest” coming to Downtown Milwaukee August 6-8

Matt Wild

July 14, 2021

What's better than the return of live music? How about a ton of live music, performed outside at various locations in and around Downtown Milwaukee, during a sure-to-be-lovely weekend in August?Enter the in...

Behold the new signage on the almost-complete BMO Tower in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 15, 2019

If it feels like Downtown Milwaukee's skyline is different these days, it's because it is. Big time. And one of the biggest additions just celebrated a milestone: This week, construction crews successfully inst...

16 pictures of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Wisconsin Avenue’s new Gateway Mural

Matt Wild

July 19, 2019

Back in March, Downtown Milwaukee announced an open call for the Gateway Mural Project. It was an initiative to bring a bit of color and action to the west-facing facade of 622 W. Wisconsin Ave., on the northea...

The Westown Gateway Mural is almost in full bloom

Matt Wild

July 9, 2019

Back in March, Downtown Milwaukee announced an open call for the Gateway Mural Project, an initiative to bring a bit of color and action to the west-facing facade of 622 W. Wisconsin Ave. A few months later, Mi...

Emma Daisy Gertel chosen to create Westown’s Gateway Mural

Matt Wild

May 29, 2019

Want to create a mural for the west-facing facade of 622 W. Wisconsin Ave.?

Matt Wild

March 19, 2019

Downtown Milwaukee , you may have heard, is going through quite the renaissance/reboot/reimagining etc. The lowly Shops of Grand Avenue are transforming into "The Avenue." The long-vacant Warner Grand Theatre i...

Here’s where to go and what to get at this week’s Taste & Toast in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 25, 2019

It's time to think spring, Milwaukee. It may be soul-crushingly cold outside now, but May—and Downtown Dining Week, which returns May 30-June 6—is on the horizon. Need a taste of spring today? Then be sure to c...

Now you can play board games outside the big blue federal building in downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

August 21, 2018

Board games are a big business these days. Throw a stone and you're sure to hit a newly minted gaming pub. Go to any family function and you're sure to get stuck playing Apples To Apples or, sigh, Cards Against...

A really cool art/music installation begins tonight on Wisconsin Avenue

Matt Wild

August 15, 2018

Take a stroll down Wisconsin Avenue and you'll bump into all kinds of public art: Sculpture Milwaukee sculptures, Mauricio Ramirez utility box murals, whatever NEWaukee has cooking at its monthly Night Market. ...

Scenes from today’s World’s Largest Coffee Break in downtown Milwaukee

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 24, 2018

Milwaukee is currently neck-deep in Downtown Employee Appreciation Week, a five-day blowout filled with events, games, and lunchtime specials for the more than 83,000 folks who work downtown. On Tuesday morning...

First Impression: The Pub Club

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2015

Isn't it strange how a bar can have an identity? Depending on any combination of factors like the decor, the selection, the neighborhood, the clientele, the type of music that's played, and innumerable other in...

The Disclaimer: Milwaukee Magazine’s Dan Shafer talks Downtown

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 6, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...

First Impression: Fore! Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

July 7, 2014

In January 2013, former coach, noted southeast Wisconsin instructor, and scratch golfer Tim Grogan took a financial swing and tried to wedge an indoor golfing range into the Third Ward. Not 18 months later, the...

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